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-(define-module (dump string-similarity)
-  #:use-module (srfi srfi-1)
-  #:export (jaccard-string-similar?))
-
-(define (trigrams str)
-  "Return all trigrams in STR."
-  (if (< (string-length str) 3)
-      '()
-      (map (lambda (start)
-             (substring str start (+ start 3)))
-           (iota (- (string-length str) 2)))))
-
-(define (jaccard-index set1 set2)
-  "Return the Jaccard similarity coefficient between lists SET1 and
-SET2. Similarity between null sets is defined to be 0."
-  (if (and (null? set1)
-           (null? set2))
-      0
-      (let ((length-of-intersection (length (lset-intersection equal? set1 set2))))
-        (exact->inexact
-         (/ length-of-intersection
-            (- (+ (length set1) (length set2))
-               length-of-intersection))))))
-
-(define (jaccard-string-similarity str1 str2)
-  "Return the trigram similarity between strings STR1 and STR2 as
-defined by the Jaccard index."
-  (jaccard-index (trigrams (string-downcase str1))
-                 (trigrams (string-downcase str2))))
-
-(define (jaccard-string-similar? str1 str2)
-  "Return #t if STR1 and STR2 have a trigram similarity greater than
-0.8. Else, return #f. The Jaccard index is used as the similarity
-metric."
-  (let ((similarity-threshold 0.8))
-    (> (jaccard-string-similarity str1 str2)
-       similarity-threshold)))